Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-01-27
GENERAL.

solved and new elections ordered The
nominations will take place on the 18th Of
February and the polling on the I'D.
A FIRE broke out in the Arlington House
at New Westminster, B. C., recently and
the structure being wooden it was soon a
mass of flames, and three persons, unable
to escape, were burned to death
Mr.. PENDLEToN, United States Minister
to Germany, has left Berlin for New York.
THE chief clerk in the Paris (Franoe) post
Office, has stolen $4,000 in postal money
orders and fed.
THE British gunboat Firm was wrecked
on the Northumberland coast recently.
Nineteen OF the crew were saved by means
of rocket apparatus of the Hfe-saying SER
vice. The Firm was composite gunboat
of 455 tons and was used as a tender to the
turret ship Devastation.
AT Jewish entertainment in London re-
Gently a panic ensued from false alarm of
fire. In the rush for the doors seventeen
persons We're trampled TO death.
one of the largest strikes ever known in
Canada took place recently, when the en-
ployes of the Montreal rolling mills and
iron foundries of Messrs. Peck & Penny
and Pillow & Jersey went out. The num-
Der of persons involved in the strike was
about LOO, mostly Knights of Labor.
THE Belgian Government has prohibited
the expectation of horses until the needs OF
the cavalry Inc event Oh war nave DOcL2
covered.
LORD COLIN CAMPBELL has given up his
intention of seeking a new trial of his di-
vorce suit against his wife.
THE French Chamber of Deputies has re-
fused to abolish the indemnity for defray-
ing the expenses of religious worship in
prisons.
IT is stated that Italy has agreed to act
as mediator in the Bulgarian question on
- of fha R11lr arm
ment that it will accept Russia's terms
with the exception of the candidacy of the
Prince of Mingrelia.
THREE thousand Albanians have attacked
a military depot near MitrouitZa and the
Turkish Minister of War has ordered out
troops to quell the trouble.
THE recent elections in Greece gave the
Government majority of 100.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY was entertained at a
banquet in London on the 18th. He was a
guest of the Prince of Wales.
Two German spies were arrested in Lyons
recently for attempting to bride French
soldiers in obtaining from them one Of the
new repeating rifles with which the Gov
eminent is about to equip the army. The
spies mingled with the soldiers and after
they had became somewhat intimate with
them they offered one over 500 francs for
his rife. The soldier pretended to accept
the offer and Immediately arranged for the
arrest of the spies, which was effected
without difficulty.
A SPECIAL from Ottawa, Can, says: "Of-
ficials of the Fisheries Department look on
the Fisheries bill as game of bluff. They
say it is a poor return for six months free
use of the Canadian fisheries under prom
Use of the President of the United States
that the fisheries commission would be ap-
pointed at the next meeting of Congress-
which promise has not been carried out.''
IT is reported that the German Govern
ment confscates the property of and con-
dennis to prison by default all the residents
of Alsace-Lorraine who evade the conscrip-
ton by emigrating.
NOTICES publicly posted, inviting persons
qualified to act as oVerSeerS of military
transports to. offer themselves for employ
caused quite scare on the Vienna Bourse
recently
A DISPATCH from Peniche, Spain, says
to Malta, has been wrecked and all on
board but one were lost.
THE French steamer Gironde, which
rived home from Buenos Ayres on the goth,
had two cases of cholera on board.
THE tenants of the Viceroy of Ireland
have accepted the reduction offered them
for the present year.
THE reported sale of the steamship Amer
lea to the Italian Government is confirmed
The terms of the sale We're reported to be
81, 500,O00 With the exception of the An.
Choir line steamer City Of Rome, the Amer
lea was one of the finest craft in the Trans
Atlantic service.